Presenting the 2015 Cleveland Browns

by Tim Brulia

Last night (April 14th), at about 7:45 ET, the Cleveland Browns, as promised, debuted their long awaited new uniforms. The unveiling was webcast on the Browns website and carried live locally in Cleveland on 5ABC (WEWS-TV).

Nine Browns players took the stage at the Cleveland Convention Center sporting all nine color combinations to cheers.

Courtesy of clevelandbrowns.com, rather than make a description of each combo, here are several of the combos.

Browns in all bronwn

Browns in all white

Browns in white/brown

Browns in brown/orange

Browns in all orange

Some highlights:

One that stands out as much as anything is the large "Cleveland" wordmark across the chest of the three jerseys.

Also, the Browns follow the path of the Carolina Panthers and added an inscription to the inside of the jersey collar,

following the lead of some college football teams and numerous soccer teams in Europe.

The three pants feature an unprecedented stripe and wordmark combination that appear to be more centered to the back of the pant leg

Browns orange pants.

Browns brown pants

The socks, you ask? Merely two pairs of hose; all orange and all brown. But we didn't see any players going with one orange and one brown at the unveiling.

All in all, a major change for sure. Surprising to this reporter is the use of orange numbers on the brown jerseys. Twice before in the Browns history have we seen this combination (1946 and 1984), and in each case, the team changed to white numbers as the orange numbers were considered difficult to see from afar.

But rumors abound that the orange jerseys will be the first choice of the Browns. If so, it would then appear that for the first time ever, the brown tops would be used as an alternate, meaning no more than three appearances a season, one in the preseason, and twice in the regular season.

As a reminder, if you want to see our blog on the history of the Browns prior to the coming see, here you go.

There they are, your 2015 Cleveland Browns!

2 comments:

Nike has performed a miracle with their re-design of Cleveland's uniforms: they have managed to make the Brown's unpopular 1984 uniforms look great by comparison. These new Browns' uniforms look like high school uniforms now with the oversized "CLEVELAND" on front of the jerseys. And I never was a fan of their orange jerseys, brown pants, or stripeless socks.

Last year, they had one of the NFL's best uniforms. All they needed to do were (1) GET RID OF THE BROWN PANTS and (2) put the white-orange-white-orange-white stripes back on the brown socks to match the sleeves of their brown jerseys and they would have been PERFECT. Now they look like an embarrassment.

I can't stand Nike anymore, for their production of uglier and uglier NFL and college football uniforms or for their continues use of overseas sweatshops to produce their overpriced merchandise.

Subscribe To

NOTE: For the most part all uniforms incorporated side stripes that were identical. However there are several instances in which the stripes have been mirror-images of each other or flat-out different. When different both the left and right sides are shown. For a listing of the mirror-images please check out the portion of “About Our Template” that relates to pants stripes.

DISCLAIMER: All team and league information, sports logos, sports uniforms, and jerseys contained within this site are the intellectual properties of their respective leagues, teams, ownership groups and/or organizations, and were obtained from sources in the public domain. All manufacturers’ logos are similarly the property of those companies, current or former. Their use has been credited on every image upon which they are utilized.This site is maintained for research and historical purposes only and no financial gains are being sought from the use of the aforementioned images.Any information obtained from this site may not be sold to any third parties.The design of the templates used in the images, and all of their variations, including all helmet templates, are solely the property of Bill Schaefer and this site.Use of our constructed images requires the permission of the founders, Tim Brulia and/or Bill Schaefer.

This site is dedicated to Craig Wheeler, whose website Football Uniforms Past and Present was the first website to portray Pro Football uniforms in exhaustive detail. As fellow football historians, all of us are indebted to his work.